Vi Mode for redis-cli

Question

I have set editing-mode vi in .inputrc, which affects consoles for Ruby, MySQL, etc. It doesn't work for Redis though and I'm wondering if there's any way to make it so (ideally on OSX and Linux).

(It's mentioned here too.)

Answer 1

As @h2ero said redis-cli provides own line editing layer and it doesn't use readline .

Try to use rlwrap :

$ rlwrap -a -- redis-cli 

Answer 2

I have downloaded redis source code and found redis cli it hadn't used readline library (readline/readline.h). so it can't use key binding.

http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html